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“Boehner: Obamacare ‘Law of the Land’”

There’s that fighting spirit! Nobody — and I mean nobody — is more ferocious at preemptive surrender than is John Boehner. Like a big orange tiger bounding out of a tree with a white flag in its razor sharp claws. Terrifying!

In an exclusive interview with ABC News today, House Speaker John Boehner said there would be no more attempts to repeal Obamacare. “Obamacare is the law of the land,” he said. “The election changed” the situation, said Boehner.

While some conservatives will no doubt see this as Boehner caving, it is also a testament to political realities: the Senate is Democrat, and so is the president. The chances of a repeal are zero. Nonetheless, Boehner’s remarks underscore the effect of this election in enshrining Obamacare into the American way of life.

Wait, this isn’t Boehner caving? His constituency wants ObamaCare repealed. He should continue to push for repeal.

But hey, if you can’t win, why fight, right? May as well make it easy on Obama and the Dems and hope to get some of that revenue stream for yourselves. And besides: it ain’t like the Democrats will always control the WH and the Senate. One day, the GOP will get its turn to act as wealthy custodians of a The Bureaucratized States of America. And that makes their mouths water. Because as I keep saying, there’s really not much difference between the establishment GOP and the Democrats.

In fact, if I can be honest here, I think the GOP establishment wanted precisely this all along. Which is why measures were never taken to cut funding for implementation, and why anything other than symbolic votes never materialized.

You are now subjects. And that works for the permanent ruling class, regardless of party.

Seriously. I’m glad that I’m already more or less adjusted to leaving the GOP, because otherwise I think the blood vessels in my eyes would pop.

Struck lines from Boner’s speech:

“I want to congratulate Obama, a good man, good patriot, and good friend, for his victory. I believe he truly knows how to regulate the country into the future. Now is the time to stop fighting and get to work, because we have to do something.”

I went through this officially a couple days ago. An awkward silence followed.

Something about trying to pull Romney and Thompson over the line after telling people — over and over and over again — that they weren’t acceptable to our folks made it easy even though the vast majority of those I know in the state party are good people.

Seriously, they’re good people. They go to work in the morning, pick up their kids from school, organize charity events, and just want the best for the country.

Slowly it dawns on a nation what it’s done to itself. This time it’s fundamentally different. This time there is no recourse.

I remember the shock and horror of watching the vote that passed Obamacare but then came a number of real options to repeal the son of a bitch, including Romney’s campaign promises. There was hope.

But now we find ourselves in a wholly new place and time and there’s no way to stop any of it. This guy is nuts and I’ve never felt even a tenth of this much angst and futility about the fucking State. We just don’t do chains.

Thanks a lot. Reynolds and Ace and Whittle and Malor can stuff it. I will always vote my conscience, assuming I ever have the chance again.

JHoward, puts me in mind of the old joke about the comrade voting in an election in the USSR. The comrade started to open the ballot and the polling official admonished the comrade not to open the ballot because “it’s supposed to be a secret ballot.”

The comrade replied that he only wanted to know who he was voting for.

Rep. Ron Paul, whose maverick presidential bids shook the GOP, said in the wake of this week’s elections that the country has already veered over the fiscal cliff and he sees no chance of righting ship in a country where too many people are dependent on government.

“We’re so far gone. We’re over the cliff,” the Texas Republican told Bloomberg Television’s “In the Loop” program. “We cannot get enough people in Congress in the next 5-10 years who will do wise things.” The video.

Mr. Paul, who is retiring after 12 terms in the House, said voters on Tuesday rejected Mitt Romney because he had opposed the government bailout of General Motors and Chrysler.

“The people in the Midwest voted against him: ‘Oh, we have to be taken care of!’ So that vote was sort of like what we are laughing at in Greece,” Mr. Paul said.

“People do not want anything cut,” he said. “They want all the bailouts to come. They want the Fed to keep printing the money. And they don’t believe that we’ve gone off the cliff or are close to going off the cliff. They think we can patch it over, that we can somehow come up with some magic solution. But you can’t have a budgetary solution if you don’t change what the role of government should be. As long as you think we have to police the world and run this welfare state, all we are going to argue about is who will get the loot.”

Yeah. Crazy like a fucking fox. Unelectable. NOT A VIABLE CANDIDATE! Probably, but not because of TEH CRAZEE!

– JHo, unless the Dems have secretly perfected the “transformation pods” in some hidden lab in California or Or-ree-gone, and we’re witnessing a real-life version of the ‘Body Snatchers’, I’m going to go out on a limb here and at least mention a possibility. Chaulk it up to wishful thinking if you feel its a bridge to far.

– Maybe the GOP lesdership has simply decided that the fastest route to ending the nightmare is to help them achieve unavoidable collapse as quickly as possible. ObamaCare is not sustainable without massive displacements of beneficiaries. Either Medicare goes down or theres not enough money to even begin to support it. More taxes? Any taxation at this point just causes yet more job loss, individual insolvancy, and company closings.

– Same with the Bush tax cuts. Same with any further bailouts. Essentially the rowboat is sitting with water up to the gunnels, and ANY attemp to move thats a tiny bit unbalanced, and the boat goes down.

Boner will give Obama the tax increase on the rich, and the other rates will likely stay the same as they are now for a year or two. Then, when they are still broke after that time, because that’s how they like it, taxes will go up again.

– What got me to thinking in such wildly unpopular notions is unless the average Democrate/Progressive has a gene that forces them to believe that up is down, Black is white, and Chachie loves Nancy Pelosi, I’m thinking that not a few of them are shocked they won and terrified because they know they can’t control the ‘Socialism Genie’™ they’ve let out of the bottle.

– When you win the flag by resorting to appeal to the lowest of human instincts, its just a natter of time before the beast eats you, and I’m willing to consider they know that only too well and are secretly terrifed of the train wreck to come. Its very possible they were convined Romney would win, and exact some magic Mormon underwear elixir that would push the Genie back in the bottle, therby saving their bacon, and now instead they’re left owning the whole impossible mess.

– Color me niave, or something, or maybe I should stop ‘not drinking’.

My brother in California was in construction until the economy out there suddenly went to where the rest of the country has taken four years to follow.

He and I both feel your pain, TmjUtah.

And no, he hasn’t been able to keep another job since then. I guess when California elected Jerry Brown despite having seen how he governs before, I should have expected this year’s presidential election to go the way it did.

– If an angry mob has gathered outside the glass house and its enevitable, your best bet is to let the fools destroy their own home, and freeze for the winter, and plan on trying to be one who survives.

– Think of it as the doomsday version of ‘not interupting the enemy’ theme.

I’m almost of a mind to let them have everything they want. They’ve got most of it. So if we give them the rest we’ll get to the endgame that much sooner, collapse and then we can start over. But that whistles past a hell of a lot of spilled blood.

As you know, in CA it is now totally and I mean totally run by Dems from top to bottom WITH supermajorities in the state legislature.

There is no way the Dems can foist the blame for the huge sh*tstorm about to hit this state. (oh, we may cling for a while on Obama-Fed infusions but the graft on such as the highspeedtraintoArmageddon will suck it up faster than it comes in)

ObamaCare is going to implode … some states are resisting it, that are thousands of waivers and thousands of businesses making plans to move their employees to 30/hr weeks to avoid it.

Not to mention the lawsuits over the 1st amendment violations when ObamaCare demands religious business owners to pay for abortifacients.

I’ve listened to the nasty sore winner screechings about how conservatives should just die now and if any rethuglican opposes Obama in the House then All Bad Things will be their fault.

Pablo says November 8, 2012 at 7:55 pm
I’m almost of a mind to let them have everything they want. They’ve got most of it. So if we give them the rest we’ll get to the endgame that much sooner, collapse and then we can start over. But that whistles past a hell of a lot of spilled blood.

Word.

EO? Go for it. Midnight backroom deals? Whatever.

The system is unsustainable as it is being operated now. No one is accountable for anything anymore. I say we just stay out of it and they’ll eventually turn on their own.

Just for the record, I wouldn’t even be of a mind to bust the balls of someone who didn’t vote for Romney in a competitive state.

We just witnessed a game of chicken where neither group turned the wheel. To be honest, I can understand the group who didn’t vote for Romney much more than I can understand those who were willing to make that sort of reckless gamble with a candidate in the first place.

One of the greatest wave elections of our lifetimes (’10) was based on opposition to Obamacare and in the very next cycle we nominated the guy who couldn’t hammer that effectively. That’s something past stupid. That was effectively suicide.

‘- The good news, at least for our kids, is maybe the coming meltdown will bury the entire Progressive cult scam for many many generations to come.”

Obamaphone! Keep Obama in president okay?! Romney sucks!

I don’t see a lot of learning going on even from experience. People talk and think an emotional baby talk and make their predictions based on cartoonish mythology that they are good ones and fighting the bad ones so they’ll succeed.

The good news, at least for our kids, is maybe the coming meltdown will bury the entire Progressive cult scam for many many generations to come.

I’ve been thinking about that BBH.

On election eve I was talking with cranky and I never got back to it.

Long story short I was proposing some degree of normalization or regression to the mean as a way to predict things (i.e. presidents don’t get reelected under certain scenarios) while cranky was suggesting that interesting times are upon us.

What’s been crystallizing in my mind since then is that I was right all along! I kid but only sorta.

What if we’re regressing to the normal state of affairs? What if this has all been a fluke on a longer time line? A good run to have been alive during.

In the short term, like a century or two, Obama should have lost. In the longer term, like in all of history, strong men like Obama win. In the longer term, Rome falls. The mean we regress to might not be modern America. It might be the rest of the world for most of its history.

Cheery thought, I know. But I’m considering it.

There might not be an upside. I think this is why I’ve never really been a member of the let-it-all-burn contingent.

Maybe the GOP leadership has simply decided that the fastest route to ending the nightmare is to help them achieve unavoidable collapse as quickly as possible.

They’ll arrive in style on their flying pigs, no doubt.

not a few of them are shocked they won and terrified because they know they can’t control the ‘Socialism Genie’™ they’ve let out of the bottle

That would assume that they see some kind of downside in Total Government. If they did, they wouldn’t be proggs.

I’m willing to consider they know that only too well and are secretly terrifed of the train wreck to come.

Why would they be? They’re not ON the train. If they are even halfway aware that we’re over the fiscal cliff, they’ve undoubtedly got unwavering confidence in their incandescent ability to FIX IT with their Keynsian ways. Demand-side economics lets them be saviors by spending other people’s money, which is what they live for in the first place. It’s all good.

Either that, or they WANT the fiscal collapse with all their wicked little hearts for Cloward-Piven reasons. Others honestly believe that they can keep printing money forever without consequences.

If they didn’t believe one of those things, they wouldn’t be proggs or Dems.

Actually, I didn’t necessarily mean we live in interesting times, just that I don’t know if we do, or do not. Ultimately you might have to look back from the future to know that.

As far as your assertion above, you are entirely correct. The normal state of affairs with human governance is tyranny. What we have had in this country up until whatever date in the last century we can decided it ended was very unusual. Perhaps our tyranny won’t be quite so bad this time, and perhaps we can extract ourselves from it again some time in the future.

So, if we extract ourselves from this mess and liberty is recovered, then we might be able to call these times interesting. Otherwise, this will simply be a repeat of history, and our decline will continue until everything falls apart.

There is no way the Dems can foist the blame for the huge sh*tstorm about to hit this state.

What’s going to stop them? After watching half the nation buy some of the most outrageous lies and absurdities ever, how can you believe that somehow the truth will out THIS time?

A total financial collapse will NOT make people see the truth, except for a few. Instead, wild rumors and conspiracy theories will spread like a plague, and the MSM won’t even have to participate: these things happen on their own. Remember the rapes and murders and piles of dead bodies in the Superdome that never existed?

People used to go to the Soviet gulags and write letters to Uncle Joe to report the atrocities, believing that if he only knew, he’d put a stop to it. Do NOT underestimate the willful blindness of those who are besotted by Barack Obama’s bigger-than-life persona.

We always believe that we will be vindicated by events, but WE NEVER ARE.

Hey, elections have consequences. Let this mutherfucker burn down.

Just what do you think is going happen after that? There’s going to be real HUNGER and privation. Hyperinflation. The Weimar Republic writ large. Riots, looting, arson. Gangstas with free rein.

CHAOS AND BLOOD IN THE STREETS.

People will cry out for someone, ANYONE, to put a stop to it. After the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban stepped up to restore order and were welcomed with open arms. The Muslim Brotherhood is doing the same in Libya and Egypt and are fixin to do it in Syria.

Do you really think that the populace that re-elected Barack Obama will resist the temptation to embrace the first strong horse that comes along, regardless of the cost? Do you not realize that the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas are already here, waiting for their chance, alongside who knows who else (Mexican drug lords, China, etc.)?

Damn, I know everyone wants to find something hopeful to hang on to, but all this wishful thinking about 3-dimensional chess being played by the denizens of our fair capital is unforgivably delusional.

The American people are not who we thought they were. Even our own side failed to turn up at the ballot box, even after the direness of the situation had been proclaimed from the housetops, even after watching Obama and the Dems and the MBM behave worse than anyone has ever seen.

You just saw what happened on Tuesday. Process it. Change your assumptions about politics and the populace and endgames.

Rifles: .22LR and .270 Win is all I have. I hear .223 REM, .556×45 NATO, .762 NATO, .308 Win, .30-06 Springfield, .30-30 Win are reasonably popular. Everything the size of .270 Win or larger can come with various weights, Nosler ballistic tips, boat tails, etc. It can get pretty damned exotic and there are a lot of other calibers and specialties, but really, how many people do you know with a long gun that fires a .300 Weatherby Magnum cartridge?

Shotguns: .410, 20 gauge, 12 gauge shotgun shells, with the latter by far the most preferred, especially for SHTF days. Shot and loads vary considerably but just about anything will do in a pinch. 2 3/4″ shells are most common but 3″ 12 gauge 00 buckshot is pretty effective if you have a gun that will take 3″ shells, and by effective I mean it will go through several walls and still be lethal. Sabot slugs are interesting, but kind of specialized.

So, if we extract ourselves from this mess and liberty is recovered, then we might be able to call these times interesting. Otherwise, this will simply be a repeat of history, and our decline will continue until everything falls apart.

I’m glad you commented further because now I understand what you were saying the other day.

Yes, we’ve been living through interesting (as in anomalous) times all along.

I get what you were saying now. Think I was thinking in the colloquial Chinese curse of “interesting times” too much and that threw me.

di I’m thinking that in order to gauge the situation you have to, as a minimum, seperate the hard left nutbags, the indoctrinated young turks, from the older, more adult Dems in the congress and in general.

– For the older hands, its just a cynical playing of their base. I’m pretty sure they are aware their fearless leader is an ideolog crackpot, but they want the power.

– Reids comments today belie the fact that they remember how they lost a lot when they didn’t take advantage in Jug ears 1st two years. They need the House if they have even the slightist hope of staying ahead of that frieght train. So far, beyond throwing red meat to the base, and voting in a health plan even they know won’t work, they havn’t actually been particularly in step with his nibs. Looking ahead with the possibility og losing the Senate, they’re going to pivot, its their only hope.

Shotgun, depends on if you are talking self defense or hunting for food. For self defense, look at the Remington 870 Express Tactical, or just the Remington 870 Express to keep it relatively cheaper. Those are 18.5″ and 18″ barrels respectively. Mossberg also has some nice pumps, and for self defense I prefer a pump to a semi-auto. For hunting you probably want a longer barrel, say 28″. I’ve been very happy with my Remington 1100’s, though there are lots of good options. There are a few combos you can buy that swap a tactical barrel for a longer barrel that can be more effectively used for hunting.

As for rifles, if you can’t knock it down with your SCAR, what’s the point? But the most common recommendation from dealers I’ve run into is a Ruger 10/22.

true but would be the type you stock pile considering gun ownership in america?

Like as a commodity? 12 gauge shotgun shells and 9mm pistol rounds are probably sure winners. Rifles have so many different calibers I’d say your best bet is a variety of the popular hunting rifles out there; .270, .300 Winchester Mag, 30-06, like that.

People with guns like Jeff usually have stock like Jeff. If you’re thinking post apocalypse trade goods, your market will be guys with a deer rifle and a box of shells in the closet that will be wanting more.

Bh, there is another Chinese saying that says “There are ways when the Rich get too Rich.”

This is meant as there is only so much the people are willing to put up with before they rebel. It was said before the Boxer Rebellion when the starving Chinese peasantry stormed the homes of the wealthy. Of course times were rather feudal in that period of Chinese history and the Chinese have a long and bloody history.

But, then so do we. It’s going to be bad.

And Jeff, a generator is about $800. Get one so you don’t have to start burning the furniture to stay warm.

They need the House if they have even the slightest hope of staying ahead of that frieght train.

What makes you think they’re going to even pretend to play by the rules this time?

Whatever they want they’ll take, either by decree or by “deeming” something passed.

Again I ask: WHO IS GOING TO STOP THEM?

They’ve seen what they can get away with, and so they’ll hit the accelerator.

Midterm elections? Surely you jest.

Do you not understand that WASHINGTON IS LOST? Do you not understand that at the level of the federal government, the Constitution and the Republic have vanished?

Our only hope is to preserve the Constitution and the rule of law in whichever pockets of land we can defend and to declare anything that comes out of Washington to be null and void. They’ve already invalidated their side of the contract; there’s no reason to go on holding up ours.

I mourned the loss of the Republic several years ago, so I can let go of the old way of thinking (“Maybe if we win this or that…”).

I briefly considered picking up another case of Mosin food; then I stopped and thought about asking around if anyone was interested in a group buy.

Then I owned up that I was indulging in shopping therapy.

If I need anything in the way of supplies, I need some bullet swaging dies for a few calibers, and maybe a case prep station since the days of cheap import .223/5.56mm ammo are dead and gone so I’ll finally have to start reloading for the Bushmaster.

If I can’t handle what’s coming with what I have on hand, then it can’t be handled with ammo.

Shit, the Red Army handled Kursk with slightly less than I have on hand…

Don’t know for sure if my particular number will be up come spring. I do know that we’ve been competitive as heck in a better-than-the-national market but what with our uppityness, desire to exploit our mineral resources, and general failure to become a socialist vassal state I think we are going to get Special Treatment Hammering by The State.

Do you have Trade-io? People call in with stuff to sell or asking to buy. Most hinterlands have them. I bought a load of firewood (4-5 ricks) for $50 one year. People often generators and hunting/camping/fishing gear for sale.

– I don’t know about a gas driven generator. You’re going to run thru fuel pretty quickly. My first choice would be a small solar powered unit. Store energy during the day, use it at night when its critical. Prices should be competitive, and they can deive an invertor for AC power if neccessary, and you can use auto bulbs as illumination off the DC, and recharge any batteries you have.

Yeh, a gas gen, but strickly as a backup, and the fuel stored, ventalated but water tight if possible.

– You can use a solar unit along with several car batteries for storage. electric sleeping bags, and keep the house at minimum, dressing warmly. As much battery operated equipmwnt as possible, feild stove etc.. AC conversion costs you efficiency and pushes up the wattage you’d need in a solar power/car battery setup. again, good ventalation for the batteries.

– And don’t forget medical basics. Aspirin, an ample store of Neo-sporin and various bandages and guaze. The new types of contact bandafe with the heal jell are excelent. lots of easy tear tape. Some store of anticptic, and burn meds. Eye wash.

– Remember, even a simple cut if infected can be the ball game. Lots of pinesol to keep down mold.

Those are the same before/after shots I’ve seen, sdferr. That’s kind of the closest the Jersey Shore gets being able to replicate the effect of hurricanes on trailer parks. I can’t even think of where Brigantine is, though I remember going to a place called Brigantine Castle as a kid.

It’s the island just north of Atlantic City Abe. On the whole, I don’t think it got hit near as bad as the islands north of itself like Long Beach Is and further up the coast. But I’m guessing, based on very little input.

After that, um …. and talk about cult of personality! Some of his followers are double um.

That’s an assertion, Darleen, and as such it’s wholly unconvincing. Allow me one of my own, this time correct: You’re wrong. But if you insist, believe in your undefined third way — something between the GOP in full fail mode and the only popular small government classical liberal that ever stood a chance. I’ll wait. I mean you no disrespect but really look at your options.

With that in mind, allow me to define them as I see them.

dicentra gets is. There is NO remaining strategy:

What makes you think they’re going to even pretend to play by the rules this time?

Whatever they want they’ll take, either by decree or by “deeming” something passed.

Again I ask: WHO IS GOING TO STOP THEM?

They’ve seen what they can get away with, and so they’ll hit the accelerator.

Midterm elections? Surely you jest.

Do you not understand that WASHINGTON IS LOST? Do you not understand that at the level of the federal government, the Constitution and the Republic have vanished?

You need to realize that the war has itself been lost. This wasn’t just an advanced phase battle, this was the whole thing. The sheer momentum of a hundred years of progressivism combined with the final act of progressivism that is Obamacare means it’s over. You have no strategy left to you. There is no going back and Boehner just told you that. Hell, Obama said he’d fundamentally transform the place and he did.

Then he told you to vote out of revenge — while his co-president Jarrett told you repercussions would be severe, which they will be — and they meant it. How many times do I have to point to federal education, federal health, federal money, federal finance, federal housing, and soon federal identity and permissions throughout it all before we get it?

Do we really think even one of these trainwrecks would ever work? Like the feckless Repair Medicare bullshit out of the Romney camp? Added together and including unfunded State-level pensions, they’re some quarter quadrillion dollars upside down. Does that have to be repeated a two hundredth time before we grasp the magnitude of the problem?

This is the functionally Imperial Presidency and all-doing central State and there is nothing Congress can do about it but prevent it including their rubber stamp when it happens.

Also, there’s nothing wrong with going survival mode and preparing yourself. But as I’ve also said, if a collapse were to occur it would undoubtedly occur under a Romney Administration as it tried and failed to unwind all this, assuming it would, which not one of us really believed.* There shall be no unwinding under Obama II and thus there shall be no collapse. What there shall be are endless Stimulus and endless progressive patchwork and the whole bloody mess will stand, by God, or they will find just one more way to keep it standing!

Proof? What’s the latest thing on national radar. It’s some urgent “fiscal cliff” rebalancing act that you all already know will absolutely mean driving down the shit out of everything so as to fund, at least in part, the whole mess. They’re simply not going to let this thing fail by their measure or lights. They are going to make you live in this post-American, post-Enlightenment, and post-civilization age or you absolutely will die by their trying.

If Jeff posts up some of the things happening right now, you will grasp the nature of the problem:

-Internet freedom. This needs explaining?

-They already fused Homeland Security into the private sector. You are property, people.

-An immediate rush to enact the first phase of the UN’s global gun management policy. You know what comes next and they’ve got four long years to get er done.

-Bernanke is semi-permanent, and together with the Treasury, runs the entire enchilada where it lives, which is in the numbers. You need to grasp that Paul and crew were absolutely on to the single most important problem under our sun.

I could go on but since Roberts showed you the extent of structuralism, and since with the govt already virtually owning that roster of stuff from education to hospice, what remains is removing resistance and globalizing everything.

Tell me you don’t see this already started up.

No, we have no more battles. Because we have no more means.

*I got aboard the Romney movement out of one sentiment, which was that I wanted to believe it harbored and would be beholden to the TEA/Liberty/independents faction, which like Jeff I still believe is sizable and formidable and could, must, and perhaps shall form the third way that simply does not exist today. The problem is that its formidability lies in its tacit resistance and its remaining spirit and intellectualism. Whether it ever arises — and moreover by what possible means — remains to be seen.

Returning to the assertion that Paul was the untenable candidate, you’re incorrect, Darleen. He was the only last hope if we weren’t going to go right down the path Reagan described decades ago. We didn’t listen and now we’re on our way. We were as timid politically as we are functionally.

Ironically, having said otherwise, we ourselves made the perfect the enemy of the good.

Not saying you’re wrong, JHoward, but you do have more of a religious than political fervor with your point of view. It’s a lot less “Find ways to move forward, and forget the feckless GOP, and there endless beta male maze” and a lot more “Repent! Then End is Near. For yay, the quadrillion is coming.”

The GOP is done. Like K-Mart, they’ll still be around, irrelevant, but somehow still part of the conversation. An example of how to lose a once-unassailable position at the top of the heap, only desperate marketing gimmicks and the hiring of a succession of has-been turnaround artists will keep it afloat.

K-Mart lost the concept war early, its stores were small, dark and shabby. They were mostly anchors in older strip malls while Wal-Mart was building mega-stores with tons of parking in the far reaches of the exurbs where the newly house-poor, dual-income yuppies needed to buy cheap curtains and cheaper food in the hour between work and driving the kids to practice. K-Mart became the place where your grandmother bought you generic-looking sweaters when your aunts let her go shopping on her own.

The GOP went the same way. Looks great on paper, but once you get in, the merchandise is dusty, the floors are dirty, the customer service sucks and the executives don’t care because they still have the idea that there’s no place else for voters to go. You want that yuppie market? Hire Martha Stewart, it’ll downgrade her brand and not uplift yours and she’ll bail in five years, but you’ll get that quick bump from curiosity seekers. You want that Hispanic vote? Push for “comprehensive immigration reform”. Why not?

Washington is lost to us. If we wish to restore the Republic, it will have to be done at the level of our sovereign States. I’m not hopeful that Minnesota can be saved, but I have the consolation of some sane cheese-eaters on the other side of the river, when things here go completely pear-shaped.

I still think things will come to a head when California goes under, and the responsible states are “asked” to bail out the land of fruits, nuts and flakes. It’ll be Germany and Greece all over again.

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